Islam is the fastest growing religion AGREED! but the fundamental question is who understands islam? everyone tries to mold it to their preference! like sharukh to his zakir naik to his! me to mine & you to your's!
the problem is our ulemas are coming usually from POOR backgrounds! hence sometimes cannot relate or understand what is being asked of them....and I AM NOT SAYING poor people are wrong but i am saying your background does affect your thinking and your point of view!
if our ulemas are CHEMICAL ENGINEERS,CFAs,NUCLEAR SCINENTIST don't you think they will be able to reflect deen better! they would be able to keep deen & duniya! currently people believe you can have deen or duniya!! but never both!
i am sorry but usually when people have not such a bright kid they plan to make him an alem-e-din but if you have a bright kid you want to make him a scinetist or CFAs!
back in the day uleams were not just ulemas but great mathematicians,doctors etc!
today we might be more in numbers but in quantity we are severely depleted!
you talk about different scholars different people beliving different things! let me ask you a simple question do you understad arabic? i guess the answer is no! so how can you understand your deen!??? how do you know if the scholar is cursing you in arabic or is saying something from the quranic text!(i am only giving an exmaple)
the problem is our LOVE for our deen is not lacking but our UNDERSTANDING is! our love is so much that if one scholar tells us to do something for deen to appease our maker we will do it regardless of thinking is it mentioned anywhere in the book of Allah?
translation looses the essence the meaning and depends on who is translating?
WE ALL are MUSLIMS only by NAME! the day we admit this we can talk about how to improve the case.